After surgery

We were away from Mary from 2:10 to 5:30 when they called us into the recovery room. It was the fastest 3 hours ever because i was nervous about seeing the external fixator for the first time. Two different mom's warned it is bigger than you expect. However, that information helped me because when i did see it it didn't look overwhelming. Maybe because its the pink!

She looked great! She had some discomfort so they gave her 2 doses of morphine then it took awhile to get the Rx but they gave her a pca (patient controlled something) since she is old enough. We heard multiple times from every person after that that she must be the only person that hits the button (not her parents) to administer the morphine. Her daddy did a great job verifying the pca was set for the prescribed Rx. (he learned to verify pain management from her delivery when i was given an epidural but it wasn't turned on.)

Then we moved to her permanent room around 6:45. Everyone that saw her said she looked surprisingly great and they wouldn't have guessed she just had surgery.

Unfortunately we are sharing with someone else so there isn't a lot of room.

We quickly had to order dinner because the kitchen closes at 7. We ordered simple food (applesauce, chicken broth, bread, Italian ice and bread) in hopes she wouldn't get sick to her stomach. it had been close to 24 hours since she ate last.

She cant feel her left leg at all yet because of the nerve block. She got frustrated once because she cant move her left leg to get comfortable but she figured it out.

Her daddy left to sleep at home with our younger daughter.

Tonight she watched TV, played games on the ipad, and i read to her.

She was a little nervous about using a bed pan so it took two tries but i think it will be faster next time.

They are keeping her leg elevated, icing it, and giving 3 doses of antibiotic every 8 hours. She started trying to fall asleep around 11 but its hard because she sleeps on her stomach and cant now. And of course its a shift change so people keep coming in now. Pain management doc just came by to check on her. All still numb and she hasn't used the pca once yet. She says she feels like a 0 on a scale of 0-10. 11:40 and still awake because she cant sleep on her stomach...